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Chinese Mobile-phone Use Rises

November 14, 1996|By Stanley Ziemba.

Motorola Inc., which says it is China's top mobile phone-maker, expects its phone sales there to increase as much as 40 percent this year, as the number of mobile phone users in China doubles, to roughly 7 million. Motorola has spent about $1 billion on its China business and is building a 19-story regional headquarters building in Beijing.